The George May Powell collection contains personal and family correspondence. Also included are business papers relating to his Thirteenth Amendment anti-slavery photograph, his inventions, and his publications; a diary, letters, and essays regarding his post-war travel, and religious and pacifist correspondence and essays.
The collection is divided into the following series: 1) correspondence with Emma C. Small, 1860-1868; 2) George May Powell Company business records (13th Amendment photo); 3) Post-war expedition to Egypt and Palestine diary, records, and maps; 4) American Christian Commission and Evangelical Press Association correspondence; 5) Peace activities: Christian Arbitration and Peace Society, Arbitration Council correspondence (views on the Boer War, the Homestead strike, international peace courts, and compensation for Mexican land); 6) Forestry and fireproofing work in New York (1873-1909): correspondence and records; 7) Essays and patents, including 1864 pro-Lincoln speech "Facts and figures for the hour;" 8) Condell Lifelimb Company records and correspondence; 9) Miscellaneous letters and ephemera, 1858-1904 (includes postcards, tax receipts, bills, check stubs, music scale book, and personal letters); 10) Biographical information, newsclippings, and photographs.
- GLC#
- GLC00687
- Type
- Header Record
- Date
- 1858-1909
- Author/Creator
- Powell, George May, 1835-1905
- Title
- Papers of George May Powell [decimalized]
- Place Written
- Various Places
- Pagination
- 279 items
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
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